Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,

King James Version

For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

Holman Bible

But if you refuse to let them go and keep holding them,

International Standard Version

But if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,

A Conservative Version

For if thou refuse to let them go, and will still hold them,

American Standard Version

For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

Amplified

But if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,

Bible in Basic English

For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your power,

Darby Translation

For if thou refuse to let them go, and shalt retain them still,

Julia Smith Translation

For if thou refusest to send forth, but yet thou holdest fast upon them,

King James 2000

For if you refuse to let them go, and will hold them still,

Lexham Expanded Bible

But if you [are] refusing to release and you still [are] keeping hold of them,

Modern King James verseion

For if you refuse to let them go, and will hold them still,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If thou wilt not let them go but wilt hold them still:

NET Bible

For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,

New Heart English Bible

For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,

The Emphasized Bible

But, if, refusing, thou art to let them go, - and still art holding them fast,

Webster

For if thou shalt refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

World English Bible

For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,

Youngs Literal Translation

for, if thou art refusing to send away, and art still keeping hold upon them,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For if thou refuse
מאן 
Ma'en 
Usage: 4

to let them go
שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Plague Five: Livestock Death

1 Then Jehovah said to Moses: Go to Pharaoh, and tell him, this is what Jehovah the God of the Hebrews says: Let my people go to serve me. 2 For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them, 3 Jehovah will bring a terrible plague on your livestock, including your horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, sheep, and goats.

Cross References

Exodus 8:2

But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will afflict your whole territory with frogs.

Exodus 4:23

So I said to you: 'Let My son go that he may serve me. But you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'

Exodus 10:4

If you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

Leviticus 26:14-16

If you will not listen to me and obey all these commandments,

Leviticus 26:23-24

If this discipline does not help and you still resist,

Leviticus 26:27-28

If in spite of this you do not listen to me and still resist me,

Psalm 7:11-12

God is a righteous judge and a God who has indignation every day.

Psalm 68:21

Certainly, God will crush the heads of his enemies and destroy even the hair on the heads of those who continue to be guilty.

Isaiah 1:20

Refuse and rebel and swords will devour you. Jehovah has spoken.

Romans 2:8

Those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will receive wrath and indignation.

Revelation 2:21-22

I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality.

Revelation 16:9

Men were scorched with great heat. They blasphemed the name of God, who has power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.

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